Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors.
AI agents call get_recently_published to retrieve information from Gov info api without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves recently published government information, returning search results without side effects. It is a read-only operation that fetches and displays data. The context of being an API wrapper for the US government info API confirms this is informational retrieval with no destructive or transactional capability.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_recently_published' and description 'Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors' indicates retrieval of government information data. No modification, deletion, code execution, or financial transactions are involved.
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Find related search results highlighting key committees and sponsors. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Gov info api MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Gov info api MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_recently_published: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Gov info api. Nothing to install.
get_recently_published is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_recently_published rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_recently_published. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_recently_published is provided by the Gov info api MCP server (n00dlefr34k/gov-info-api-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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